Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Local Embassy

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was keep (no consensus for a merge). Salvio Let's talk about it! 11:06, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Local Embassy


Despite being Main Page linked, there hasn't been any useful activity at Wikipedia Talk:Local Embassy for at least a year. Most comments that have occurred have been nonsense. Several users have noted the page is useless and/or misleading.

The list of multilingual users on Local Embassy could be retained under a different name. There are concerns that the list contains many non-active users. LukeSurlt c 22:21, 5 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep if it's dead, tag it as historical. I don't see any particular reason to delete a page with plenty of history, and we don't usually delete archived pages. Hut 8.5 23:14, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Tagging as historical may be better. The main reason I nominated this is to remove the main-page link, as this takes up pixels that could be better used. --LukeSurlt c 09:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * If you want to do that I would suggest raising it at Talk:Main Page, which is the venue for discussion of the main page. Deleting something isn't the best way to go about getting it removed from the main page. Hut 8.5 11:21, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

*Keep and sort out why it isn't being found by visitors to en:. LeadSongDog come howl!  03:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge to Embassy, which is the normal target on other languages' Wikipedias.LeadSongDog come howl!  06:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * That exists? There seems to be no clear distinction between the functions of Embassy and Local Embassy. Either way, both seem to be wholly inactive. LukeSurlt c 09:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It not only exists, it exists on most language versions of WP, and equivalently on meta as Wikimedia_Embassy. The Local Embassy here is the anomaly. LeadSongDog come howl!  20:39, 6 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep based on stated justification – although I am inclined to agree that the seemingly duplicative Embassy and Local Embassy should be merged. The nomination is flawed, as far as I can see:  it doesn't appear that a listing of users is necessarily supposed to have frequent "useful activity."  From looking at the page, it seems that the primary function is that you can use the page to find someone to speak with, not that it's necessarily supposed to have frequent posts or questions – even if you are allowed to ask questions.  Plus, someone just added their name as a Nepali speaker today.  So I don't see why a lack of frequent activity is a basis to delete the page.  Finally, the "tag as historical" option appears to be wholly viable even if this page was shown to be dead.   AgnosticAphid  talk 01:04, 13 June 2013 (UTC)


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